Vancouver's health-oriented Be Fresh Local Market opens its fifth location on Broadway

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      The health-oriented Be Fresh Market and Café continues to expand across the city with another location in Kitsilano, bringing the number of their locations to a total of five.

      Their first Kitsilano location opened at 1900 West 1st Avenue.

      Their new location, which opened on February 1, spans about 1,800 square feet of retail space at 2951 West Broadway (at Bayswater Street), which was formerly occupied by The Produce Co., and has seats for 16 customers.

      With an emphasis on sustainability and organic and locally sourced food, their cafés serve up smoothies, soups, salads (from Texas salad with barbecue pulled pork to kale Caesar salad with chickpeas), gourmet wraps (such as Asian beef wrap, rainbow vegetable and hummus wrap, and more), organic cold-pressed juice from the Juice Box, breakfast items, desserts, and more.

      Their markets sell a variety of local products from sauces to skincare, in addition to produce, and they also offer catering services.

      Be Fresh Local Market

      While the Broadway location, which features a coffee bar, grocery market, artisan products, and a grab-and-go section, is in its soft-opening phase, it'll be holding five days of giveaways from February 6 to 10.

      Each day this week will feature special giveaways during specific two-hour windows (all will be from 12 to 2 p.m., except on Tuesday, which will be from 4 to 6 p.m.) :

      • Monday: Biota Fermentation

      • Tuesday: The Lemon Square

      • Wednesday: Two Rivers Meats

      • Thursday: Zimt Chocolate

      • Friday: Two Daughters Bakeshop

      Be Fresh Local Market

      Be Fresh Bayswater's official grand opening will be on February 18.

      Be Fresh also operates cafés at Bentall Centre and at Robert Lee YMCA in downtown Vancouver, and sells at Organic Acres Market (at 3603 Main Street).

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